Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.
My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.
Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.
Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.
I've always known I'm incredibly special. All my life. You know? It's not a big deal.
A lot of Gorillaz songs were very personal. I mean, that's why it was interesting, because it wasn't music being made for a cartoon. It was something different. It was a much more emotional affair. I wasn't necessarily thinking in the third-person then.
No, books. She would have maybe twenty going at a time, lying all over our house--on the kitchen table, by her bed, the bathroom, our car, her bags, a little stack at the edge of each stair. And she'd use anything she could find for a bookmark. My missing sock, an apple core, her reading glasses, another book, a fork.
There is one statement I want you to keep after you are finished with this book. It is more of a mantra, really. Nonetheless, let it crawl across your mind any time you feel you have been backed into a corner spiritually. It is very simple: Live your life, no matter what life is. Take that with you. Live your life. No matter what that life is.
If people can live openly and be equal, then you have to have a pretty strong reason to say they can't get married.
I don't shop because I need something, I just shop for shopping's sake.